I have already said a lot to show that reading is one of the cheapest entertainments? perhaps the cheapest after listening to the radio.

Starting from the question of whether one spends more on reading or smoking, George Orwell in these enjoyable texts examines a series of issues: from the dangers hidden in second-hand bookstores to how the book critic lives, from the freedom of the press to the true meaning of patriotism.

"As the reader will find out by reading the texts of this volume, Orwell belongs to a category of people who choose to express themselves through writing, faithful to the idea that words can be carriers and transmitters of truth, to be the bearers of the urgently true, their combination allowing you to speak about the deepest, sincere, beautiful, rich, noble things you happen to encounter and/or capture, but also about the trivial, base, humiliated, prolonged, slandered "that reaches your eyes" (as an old poet used to say)."
George-Icarus Babasakis

Starting from the question of whether one spends more on reading or smoking, George Orwell in these enjoyable texts examines a series of issues: from the dangers hidden in second-hand bookstores to how the book critic lives, from the freedom of the press to the true meaning of patriotism.